For years I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a set of shapes for well bore diagrams. Well bore schematic drawings show the important, ahem, bits, of an oil drilling system from up on the surface to way down in the Earth’s crust.

My most recent research on the subject came to an exciting conclusion: there’s nothing for me to do here, because somebody’s already done it!

Visio 2010 has added many, many new features for process diagramming and improvement. Partners are jumping at the chance to build sophisticated new add-ins and products on top of the Visio 2010 platform.

Today, Microsoft MVP Scott Helmers introduces you to Global360’s new analystView product and explains how it will help you to easily improve your business’ processes.

We’ve compiled extensive lists of all the add-ons that ship with Visio 2010 Premium, Pro and Standard. Read below the fold to see if the features you need will be in the edition of Visio you plan on purchasing!

If you create your own Visio shapes or make drawings that have elements arranged circularly, then you may have experienced frustration.

Visio has the tools to draw circular-arrays of objects, but learning to do it takes time. There are no direct “arrange stuff in circles” functions. You have to cleverly use other functionality to get the job done.

To make things easier for you and me, I invented the Radial Elements Tool solves some of these problems. With this tool, you can create circular arrays of customizable tick marks in seconds!